- Inspector Jukes: Has he hopped it?
- Harry Wainwright: I don't understand that vulgar expression. But he did a bunk if that's what you mean.
- Captain Fordyce: What happened to that business you started before I left?
- Harry Wainwright: Oh, going like clockwork
- Captain Fordyce: Good, I heard a rumour that it had failed
- Harry Wainwright: That's just it, it's been wound up